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Metaphor, Meaning, and Bodily Experience Metaphor, Meaning, and Bodily Experience
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Wounds and Wound Treatment in Ancient Medical Literature Wounds and Wound Treatment in Ancient Medical Literature
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Treating the Putrid Wounds of Sin and Heresy Treating the Putrid Wounds of Sin and Heresy
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Conceptualizing Sin and Heresy as Wounds of the Soul Conceptualizing Sin and Heresy as Wounds of the Soul
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Advising Treatment: Salutary Wounding by Christian “Physicians” Advising Treatment: Salutary Wounding by Christian “Physicians”
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Wounds and Medical Logic in Early Christian Asceticism and in the Melanian Literature Wounds and Medical Logic in Early Christian Asceticism and in the Melanian Literature
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Abstract
In the Life of Melania, Gerontius explains that Melania was impelled to adopt an ascetic life because she had been “wounded by divine love” and that, later in life, that “wounding” prompted Melania to a more rigorous form of asceticism. The concept of “divine wounding”—a prodding and provoking by God that drove ascetics to deeper devotion, discipline, and piety—had become relatively well-defined and common in the fourth and fifth centuries. This chapter demonstrates that wounding was an exceedingly “usable” image in ascetic texts given the widespread bodily experience to which the figurative language referred and given its relationship to other wound metaphors pervasive in earlier Christian discourse.
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